Bill Information

Regular Session 2013-2014House Bill 790

An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, providing for executive director of the board; and further providing for general powers; in Pennsylvania liquor stores, further providing for time of sales and for sales by Pennsylvania liquor stores; in liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages licenses and regulations, further providing for authority to issue liquor licenses to hotels, restaurants and clubs and for license districts, periods and hearings; providing for restaurant food market liquor license; further providing for issuance and transfer or extension of hotel, restaurant and club liquor licenses, for sales and restrictions, for sale of malt or brewed beverages, for liquor importers' licenses, fees, privileges and restrictions, for interlocking businesses; providing for expanded permits and for enhanced distributor and importing distributor permits; further providing for malt and brewed beverages manufacturers', distributors' and importing distributors' licenses, for malt and brewed beverage retail licenses, for number and kinds of licenses allowed same licensee, for distributors' and importing distributors' restrictions, for retail dispensers' restrictions, for interlocking businesses, for breweries, for county retail licenses, for assignability and transfers, for local option, for surrender of license, for shipment of wine into Commonwealth; establishing the Pennsylvania Wine Industry Promotion Board; further providing for unlawful acts, for alcohol and liquor licensees, for identification cards and prosecution and for vacation of premises by patrons; in distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire and transporters for hire, further providing for limited wineries and for distilleries; in disposition of collected funds, further providing for money returned to municipalities; providing for money paid into the General Fund for use of the Commonwealth; further providing for money for use of the Commonwealth; establishing the Senior Citizens Property Tax Relief Fund; providing for studies of the wine and spirits wholesale system in this Commonwealth; and making a related repeal.